Botch

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

(2): (n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

(3): (n.) Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

(4): (n.) To mark with, or as with, botches.

(5): (n.) To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; - sometimes with up.

(6): (n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Botch . A botch (connected with ‘beat’ and ‘boss’) is a swelling, an eruption in the skin. It occurs in reference to   Deuteronomy 28:27 ‘the botch of Egypt.’ See Blain, Medicine. The modern word is ‘boil,’ which is also the more common word for the same Heb. in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . For the Eng. word see Milton PL xii. 180

‘Botches and blaines must all his flesh imboss.’

King James Dictionary

BOTCH, n. Eng.patch.

1. A swelling on the skin a large ulcerous affection.

Botches and blains must all his flesh imboss.

2. A patch,or the part of a garment patched or mended in a

clumsy manner work in mending.

3. That which resembles a botch a part added clumsily adventitious or words.

If those words are not notorious botches, I am deceived.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Deuteronomy 28:27,35 Exodus 9:9

Morrish Bible Dictionary

An incurable skin disease, otherwise undefined.  Deuteronomy 28:27,35 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Deuteronomy 28:27 28:35

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( שְׁחַין , Shechiz', elsewhere "boil"), a name applied ( Deuteronomy 28:27;  Deuteronomy 28:35) to the Egyptian plague of cutaneous inflammatory eruptions ( Exodus 9:9 sq.), a disease at that time preternaturally induced, but apparently also endemic in that country from Sept. to Dec., according to some travellers, and breaking out in pustules that sometimes prove fatal in a few days (Granger, Voyage de l'Egypte, p. 22). Others (comp. Rosenmuler, Alterthumsk. ii, 222 sq.) understand a kind of eruptive fever engendered by the effluvia after the inundation of the Nile; but this disease would hardly attack cattle. Jahn (Archaol. I, ii, 384) thinks it was the black leprosy or melandria. (See Boil).